Hi, I'm Henry Bear.

And I'm Tyler Johnson.

And you're listening to The Doctors Art, a podcast that explores meaning in medicine.

Throughout our medical training and career, we have pondered.

What makes medicine meaningful?

Can a stronger understanding of this meaning create better doctors?

How can we build health care institutions that nurture the doctor-patient connection?

What can we learn about the human condition

from accompanying our patients in times of suffering?

In seeking answers to these questions,

we meet with deep thinkers working across health care, from doctors and nurses to patients and health care executives, those who have collected a career's worth of hard-earned wisdom.

Probing the moral heart that beats at the core of medicine, we will hear stories that are by turns heartbreaking, amusing, inspiring, challenging, and enlightening.

We welcome anyone curious about why doctors do what they do.

Join us as we think out loud about what illness and healing

can teach us about some of life's biggest questions.

A lung transplant, taking some or all of one person's lungs and putting them into someone else,

giving the recipient years of additional life they otherwise wouldn't have,

sounds nothing short of miraculous. Today, over 2,500 lung transplants are performed every year in the U.S.

Still, it's among the most medically and ethically complex areas of medicine.

Joining us in this episode is Dr David Weil,

former director of the lung and Heart Lung Transplant

Center at Stanford Health Care. He is also the author of the book,

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